What's it all about?

I'm not what you'd call a "natural runner". I used to run "the mile" at sports day when I was at school, which I thought was near impossible. One year I passed out: my french teacher made me drink sugary tea. Since I left school, I do occasionally run for a train. It usually hurts.

So the joke is, I trained for the Peterborough half marathon in 2011! It's a running joke, because it goes on (and on), and also because it's about running (see what I did there?). The serious part is, I started running because my friend Heather's mum died from lung cancer last year. With your help, I raised over £1200 for Macmillan. I feel very strongly that sponsorship money should be earned. I think I did that. I may raise money again some time, and hope you might help with that too.

But I aim to laugh about it. Read on...

Wednesday 27 June 2012

5K every day in... June?

I know what you're thinking. You're thinking I clearly haven't been doing much jogging recently. But that's where you're wrong. I just haven't been doing much blogging... fortunately, I can clearly remember all the jogging I've done.

You see, I said I'd run 35km every week in June. It was Heather's fault, she dared me to keep up the every day in May thing, through June. I kind of ran out of time. But next week, I'll get on it. I'm proposing to update you a week at a time, you see. So bare with...